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We Minored In Film
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We are two pop culture obsessives whose passion and level of knowledge for all things pop culture outweighs our academic credentials, and We Minored In Film is our effort to cover all things near and dear to our geeky hearts. Regular Features on the site include discussions of particularly amazing scenes from films and episodes from television shows and transcribed conversations in which we debate the merits of a pop culture topic of our choosing. Plus, there are lists - lots of lists.
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Does the World Really Need Another Friday the 13th Movie?
Now that our first Friday the 13th of 2015 is behind us, we actually have two more to look forward to, one next month and then another in November. Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
About That One Time Burt Reynolds Almost Punched The Director On the Set of...
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson did not have a good time making 50 Shades of Grey. Based on E.L. James’ Twilight-fanfic-turned-bestselling-novel trilogy, the story... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Arrow’s “Canaries” (S3,EP13) & The Relief of Seeing Bad Storylines Finally...
It is possible to course-correct during a season of television. For example, two seasons ago The Vampire Diaries had become a white hot mess with more... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Flash’s “The Nuclear Man” & What It Means to Be a CW Show
Towards the end of the latest episode of The Flash, “The Nuclear Man,” a character who has just discovered he is literally a walking nuclear bomb about to go of... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: What the Hell Happened With Jupiter Ascending & What Does It Mean fo...
When Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow flopped last summer despite an almost euphoric response from critics (90% Fresh rating on RottenTomatoes) and fans (90% of... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Everything We Know & Everything We Don’t About Spider-Man Joining the Marvel...
So, Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First it was a rumor, then it was dead, then it was a rumor flat out confirmed by leaked emails,... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
5 Reasons There Are So Many Comic Book TV Shows & What’s Next
Be honest: Have you lost track of how many comic books are being turned into TV shows right now? The last time I counted there were three already on the air... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Sam Raimi’s Poltergeist: Try To Think Of It As A Fun “Haunted House” Movie &...
Poltergeist is a classic film with a sensibility unique to its era that cannot be re-created. Any attempt to do so is more likely to simply arrive, mildly... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
TV Review: Arrow, “Uprising” (S3,Ep12) – Arrow’s Dark Knight Rises Problem
The people who make Arrow love comic books, or at least the big 3 producers do: Kreisberg, Guggenheim Berlanti. All three of them had written for DC Comics... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
8 Questions About The Flash After “Crazy For You” (S1,EP12)
This was a somewhat disjointed episode of The Flash, with Barry’s efforts to take down a metahuman Bonnie Clyde mostly window dressing for some welcome... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Oh, Now I Understand How Netflix’s Business Operates – They’re Deeply In Debt
In an interview with KCRW’s The Business, Boyhood director Richard Linklater discussed the often shady realities of dealing with private equity funds and... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Clearing Space on the DVR: Saying Goodbye to Gotham
Last night, Fox’s Batman prequel series Gotham introduced its version of The Scarecrow, the latest in the show’s long line of well-known comic book villains.... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Box Office: Observe the Cautionary Tale of Project Almanac & Ponder the Future o...
The cyclical nature of the film industry is often akin to surfing: some random movie comes along and causes a ripple in the ocean. Countless producers grab thei... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Is Binge-Watching Bad For Us? – The Answer May Not Really Surprise You
Have you felt the shame of Netflix’s, “Are you still watching?” It’s the on-screen text you see if you watch two or more episodes of a TV show without ever... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Confused By the Terminator: Geniysis Super Bowl Ad? Allow Me to Explain
In their reaction to the new Terminator: Geniysis Super Bowl ad, Vulture pleaded, “Can someone explain to us what exactly is happening in this trailer for the... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
TV Review: Arrow, “Midnight City” (S3,Ep11) – Please, Stop the Insanity, Tell...
After Arrow’s first season, the producers were not satisfied with what they had accomplished. In their estimation, they had failed to sufficiently center all... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
They’re Finishing Mission Impossible 5 Early? I Didn’t Even Know They’d Started...
When I first saw the headlines that Paramount Pictures was moving the release date for Mission Impossible 5 I naturally assumed they were pushing it back. Read more
Posted on 28 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
TV Review: The Flash, “The Sound and The Fury” (S1,EP11) – That Tom Cavanagh Guy...
The Flash‘s mantra is that there will always be more story to tell. That’s what the producers told Tom Cavanagh when he asked if they were perhaps moving a... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Just Don’t Think of It As a Ghostbusters Movie – The Rumored Plot & Official Cas...
From the second Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot was announced, my reaction was that it helped if you simply didn’t think of it as a Ghostbusters... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
What Do We Think of The New Fantastic Four Movie Now?
Where was The Fantastic Four? That was the question everyone was asking after last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the very same Comic-Con that delivered exclusive... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO